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Book Notes: The Year of the Flood
This is the second novel in the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Like Oryx and Crake, I read this about twenty years ago. However time and many other books have written over my memory and it was all new again. The Year of the Flood focuses on the lives of two women, Ren and Toby,… Continue reading
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Book Notes: Comedy, Character & Control
This is not my typical magic book to read as I have always struggled with the idea of a comedy magician. (Aside: I also have a struggle with magicians who bill themselves as motivational speakers but that’s best left for another day.) I believe that magic is inherently funny – weird and unusual things happen… Continue reading
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The Disclaimer
Last week Tom Dobrowolski announced to subscribers and Genii forum readers that the monthly magazine, The Disclaimer, is coming to an end. The Disclaimer has lasted a little four and a half years with an almost perfect on time record. Each issue had three close-up effects from a group of high quality magicians: Tom, Curtis… Continue reading
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Cotton or China
Today marks the two year anniversary of this blog. One hundred and twenty two posts in total. Not too bad; although it could be better. As I said in my first post, this is the resurrection of the blog, Magic and Conjuring, I ran for a few years on Blogger. I drifted away from Blogger… Continue reading
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AI in Magic Advertising
I don’t know if this story had much traction in social media as I’m not a participant. There’s been no discussion on the Genii or Magician’s Forums. Erik Tait and Nick Locapo discussed it briefly on the Penguin podcast and UK magician, Caven Booth, posted a YouTube video. It’s strange that there hasn’t been more… Continue reading
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Book Notes: Oryx and Crake
This probably qualifies as a reread as I read about 20 years ago. It popped up on a list of the top twenty most banned books – of which Margaret Atwood has two. The other being The Handmaid’s Tale. According to Wikipedia, it’s been banned for “objective sensitive material”. Oryx and Crake is book one… Continue reading
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Book Notes: Blazing Eye Sees All
I can’t recall how I learned of this book. I had put it on the Recommended Purchase list, so I was one of the first to read it from our library. Leah Sottile is a Pacific Northwest author whose work has been published in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other… Continue reading